On Monday night's CSI: Miami, the plot revolved around a group of teen-aged college kids playing a real-life version of a Grand Theft Auto-esque video game.
They were mirroring the story line of the game, level by level, detail by detail -- rob a bank with a cop inside, shoot a teller and the security guard, tag a hot bystander (attempted rape, thankfully, but thwarted before it could be more than a scary thought), kidnap the bank manager, get the bank manager to tell you where the next bank's money shipment will be delivered, steal it, get busted, break into the police station and steal the evidence against the pinched criminal, etc.
And when the police went to the people responsible for the video game, in order to get a copy of the script, so that they could stop the gamers before more people got hurt, the CEO shut them down, citing that "800,000 units sold last quarter." He then refused to help the police because his lawyers said that was proprietary information, and was arrested for obstruction of justice.
I'm sure that somewhere in here, there's already been some alarmingly ridiculous flights of fancy plot-wise, but I was bothered by something else.
Because of the CEO's refusal to aid the authorities, the CSI that figured out the game connection to the crimes had to play the game level by level, to outwit the criminals. Etc.
And conveniently, he got to the level where they raid the police station (or in this case, the CSI lab) just in time to stop them from killing anyone else, much less accomplishing their criminal objective.
I won't even go into the rest of the plot, because it got even less likely, but infinitely more thrillingly Hollywood.
Now, here's my issue... If a video game has been around long enough for their to be "800,000 units sold last quarter," it's been around long enough for at least half a dozen people to have compiled a very neat and complete FAQ and step-by-step walkthrough of the game, and then post it somewhere accessible to everyone online, like IGN or Neoseeker.
Which means that they should have just gone online, spent five minutes web-browsing, and then solving the case from there.
Instead of paying one of their officers to sit around all day, and play video games.
Yeesh.
They were mirroring the story line of the game, level by level, detail by detail -- rob a bank with a cop inside, shoot a teller and the security guard, tag a hot bystander (attempted rape, thankfully, but thwarted before it could be more than a scary thought), kidnap the bank manager, get the bank manager to tell you where the next bank's money shipment will be delivered, steal it, get busted, break into the police station and steal the evidence against the pinched criminal, etc.
And when the police went to the people responsible for the video game, in order to get a copy of the script, so that they could stop the gamers before more people got hurt, the CEO shut them down, citing that "800,000 units sold last quarter." He then refused to help the police because his lawyers said that was proprietary information, and was arrested for obstruction of justice.
I'm sure that somewhere in here, there's already been some alarmingly ridiculous flights of fancy plot-wise, but I was bothered by something else.
Because of the CEO's refusal to aid the authorities, the CSI that figured out the game connection to the crimes had to play the game level by level, to outwit the criminals. Etc.
And conveniently, he got to the level where they raid the police station (or in this case, the CSI lab) just in time to stop them from killing anyone else, much less accomplishing their criminal objective.
I won't even go into the rest of the plot, because it got even less likely, but infinitely more thrillingly Hollywood.
Now, here's my issue... If a video game has been around long enough for their to be "800,000 units sold last quarter," it's been around long enough for at least half a dozen people to have compiled a very neat and complete FAQ and step-by-step walkthrough of the game, and then post it somewhere accessible to everyone online, like IGN or Neoseeker.
Which means that they should have just gone online, spent five minutes web-browsing, and then solving the case from there.
Instead of paying one of their officers to sit around all day, and play video games.
Yeesh.
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Just curious to know where you purchased your Hilary Radley Duvet coat, as I recently purchased a dsicounted one at Marshall's and discovered that it is missing the collar.
Thanks.
I got mine at the Marshalls at the corner of Barry/Clark/Halsted, in the Lakeview East region of Chicago.
Hi -- I'm just wondering what you paid for your hilary radley duvet coat as I purchased mine on sale -- apparently --
I would appreciate it if you could write back and tell me. thanks, Andrea
Considering that I bought it from the previous year's collection, I think it cost like $55 or so?
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